From the archives: What interested you the most in 2015?

This past year we continued to see strong and steady growth in visitors to the website and thank each and every one of you for coming back time and time again. We decided to drill down into our website traffic…

Maxspect sends warning over Jebao’s “Cross-flow wave making pump”

Maxspect is keeping up the pressure on making sure Jebao gets the message to stop infringing on other company’s designs and patents. On Tuesday, Maxspect shared an email they posted online sending a warning to Jebao about using the company’s…

Master Refractometer hot rod salinity measurement from Atago Japan

The Master Refractometer series by Atago is a high performance line of salinity measuring tools from Japan. We recently got some hands-on time with the Atago Master-S/MillM refractometer at the Bali Aquarium water monitoring laboratory, and it was quite refreshing to see a…

A beautiful misbar aberrant regal angelfish from Bali Aquarium

The regal angelfish, Pygoplites diacanthus, is one of the most beautiful and iconic fishes of coral reefs all over the world. This species ranges from the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean through the Indo-Pacific, all the way to the Tuamotu…

Ricordea florida: an Underappreciated Caribbean Beauty

As an American reefkeeper, it’s all too easy for me to forget that some truly gorgeous invertebrate livestock originates relatively close to home in the tropical western Atlantic and Caribbean. I was reminded of this recently when CC entrusted several…

New Poll: What are your hobby plan for 2016?

The end of the year is a perfect time to reflect on the hobby and take stock of the last year, while looking forward to what’s to come. The reefing hobby can touch on all your emotions — the joy of…

Orphek Atlantik V3 adds Wi-Fi to high-performance LED pendant

The new Orphek Atlantik V3 LED pendant, the latest iteration of the company’s high-performance LED pendant, adds Wi-Fi and upgraded the LEDs to deliver even more flexibility and performance for reef installations. The Wi-Fi control along with its Android app…

Reefbuilders Travelogue – Padang Bai and the search for Euphyllia baliensis
Padang Bai Pier is located 40 km (25 miles) east of Denpasar City and is the main ferry terminal for boats leaving Bali to Lombok and Gili Islands. There are a handful of dive sites North of the main ferry dock,…
TMC launch AquaBar T Series LED Light Bars, more affordable LED option

The UK’s Tropical Marine Centre (TMC) has added to its AquaBar line of LED lights with the debut of the AquaBar T series LED light bars designed to get those of you with T5 and T8 setups switched to LED.…

Chrysiptera papuensis, C. ellenae & C. maurineae – three new damselfish from East Indies

We’ve already posted our Top 15 New Reef Fish Species of 2015 but we should have held out for one more week. Prolific fish namers Gerald Allen and Marc Erdmann have gone an published one more paper this year, this…